Tears evoke the intention to offer social support: A systematic investigation of the interpersonal effects of emotional crying across 41 countries

• Main Authors: Zickfeld, J. H., van de Ven, N., Pich, O., Schubert, T., Berkessel, J. B., Pizarro, J. J., Bhushan, B., Mateo, N. J., HARTANTO, Andree
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: Emotional crying; Emotional tears; Attachment; Cross-cultural; Social support; Applied Behavior Analysis; Experimental Analysis of Behavior; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3480; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4738/viewcontent/tears.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Tearful crying is a ubiquitous and likely uniquely human phenomenon. Scholars have argued that emotional tears serve an attachment function: Tears are thought to act as a social glue by evoking social support intentions. Initial experimental studies supported this proposition across several methodol...